God had said Benjamin's seed should "ravin as a wolf". (Genesis 49:27) Thus the wolf became their tribal banner or symbol.

Concerning the historic movements of the Tribe of Benjamin which, with Judah, had formed the Jewish Kingdom in the Holy Land, the historian Eusebius states that just prior to Jerusalem's overthrow by the Roman armies in A.D. 70, multitudes of Benjamites fled and escaped to the mountains of Moab. They then moved into the Galatian and Cappadocian region of Asia Minor where they stayed until A.D. 267 when the Goths raided that region of Galatia and Cappadocia in Asia Minor, carrying off many Israelites and Christians into the region of the Danube westwards. The Goths, who were themselves known as "Dacians", gave their own name also to their captives, thus many of these Benjamites became known from then onwards as "Davians" also.

History confirms abundantly that the Normans came from Davia, and could therefore have been of Benjamite stock. From the Norman Dacians the Icelanders owe their origin, as also did William the Conqueror from Normandy who entered Britain under Benjamin's racial symbol or banner of the wolf in the year A.D. 1066.